From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed May 12 18:52: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05E7114F58 for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 18:52:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id SAA29134; Wed, 12 May 1999 18:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA11124; Wed, 12 May 1999 18:51:07 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn1.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA00637; Wed, 12 May 99 18:50:58 PDT Message-Id: <373A3002.174102BC@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:50:58 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Bill Fumerola , Joseph Scott , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly Open Source Con in Aug 99, BSD? References: <66490.926550762@zippy.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, we couldn't get the people and so we won't be involved > > > in any significant sense. I'd already called in all my markers and > > > emptied the speaker barrel for the USENIX technical conference and > > > there just wasn't anything left over for O'Reilly. > > > > Fly me there, and I'll talk about anything you want. :> > > Did I forget to mention that O'Reilly doesn't pay speaker expenses? > That makes it somewhat more difficult to find people. :( > > Not to pick on O'Reilly - this appears to be something of an emerging > trend. About 75% of the invites I get to speak at conferences are > "come on your own nickle please, we have no budget for speaker > subsidies" and if Walnut Creek CDROM weren't paying the bill, I would > speak far less often. Three cheers again for Walnut Creek CDROM, they're certainly great friends to have. ;^) I wish I could volunteer, but I'm up to my ears. I was supposed to be in cruise-mode by now, but somebody keeps breaking the software mine connects to, so I have to go fix THAT... One of these days I'll be able to go to these cool shows. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message